I would really love a workflow that will show my active tags in a list view

[nikivi]

With hazel, I started to make use of my finder tags and now I wish there was a way to quickly search and find through the right tags. 

 

The native method built in with alfred is not enough as I have to try and remember the name of the tag to filter though.

 

It would be amazing, if I can call the 'tag workflow' and it will show a list view like this : 

 

 

 

 

But instead of months, it will be my tags : 

 

 

 

 

 

Pressing on one, would allow to make a search scoped to the tag. Can such a thing be done? 

 

Thank you a lot for any help. This would be really useful to have for me and I hope few others.

 

 

[deanishe]

Get a list of your tags (only ones you've set using Finder):

defaults read com.apple.finder.plist ViewSettingsDictionary | grep Tag_ViewSettings | cut -d '"' -f2 | cut -d '_' -f1

Edited September 25, 2016 by deanishe

[nikivi]

Oh wow, that's strange. These are the tags I have : 

 

 

 

And this is what I get from the list : 

 

 

 

So I guess it shows all the other tags I once had. Is there a way to filter to only ones I use currently, the four there? Or perhaps more if I do decide to add more to the tags?

 

Once that is done though and I have my list view of correct tags, how do I make a search only on that specific tag?

 

Thank you a lot for your help, deanishe.

 

 

[deanishe]

Pass the selected tag to the built-in File Tags search?